Metro, the only-participant first-individual put up-apocalyptic shooter based mostly on the novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky, is headed to digital actuality headsets. Introduced in the course of the first State of Play of 2024, Metro Awakening is a new VR recreation that may arrive solely on the PlayStation VR2 in 2024.
In a new PS Blog Post, Metro Awakening is about earlier than the occasions of 2010’s Metro 2033. In Awakening, layers management Serdar, a physician looking the metro tunnels to discover his spouse. Not like different video games within the Metro franchise, Awakening is developed by Vertigo Video games
That is the latest entry to be introduced in 4A Video games’ first-individual shooter franchise, spawning 4 video games, with the latest launch, Metro Exodus, launched in 2019. In our assessment of Metro Exodus, which we gave an 8.5 out of 10, we stated, “Metro Exodus brings its survival horror to the floor with out sacrificing any of the collection’ signature pressure.”
The announcement shouldn’t be totally stunning as collection writer Dmitry Glukhovsky revealed in an Instagram put up in late 2019 that 4A Video games was creating one other recreation within the collection; on the similar time, some alluded it could be a direct sequel to Exodus; the put up merely teased the gaming collection would proceed and that Glukhovsky was concerned within the mission.
4A Video games would later verify in a blog post in 2020 that a new recreation within the Metro universe was being developed. Whereas the developer initially introduced it was wanting to sort out a multiplayer-targeted Metro recreation, it additionally tempered expectations that there was no 100% assure that the following Metro recreation could be multiplayer-solely, not to mention a Metro recreation that provided each single and multiplayer experiences “in the identical bundle.”
As for the PSVR 2, Sony’s peripheral has been quiet since launching final 12 months. We’ll see if Metro Awakening is ready to give the system a shot within the arm. Within the meantime, this is all the pieces else introduced throughout immediately’s State of Play presentation.
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